English Syntax and Argumentation

22 August 2017
Professor Bas Aarts authors English Syntax and Argumentation, part of the Macmillan Modern Linguistics, and published today
Written by a leading authority on the subject, the fifth edition of this bestselling book provides students with a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and the fundamentals of syntactic argumentation.
This theoretically-neutral core-text for English students is formed of four parts:
- foundations of syntax, namely clauses and sentences
- internal structure of phrases and the bridge between syntax and semantics
- syntactic argumentation
- argumentation and its application